Mir Jamil ur Rahman provides an interesting perspective into the political environment in Pakistan with the fast emerging Talibanisation movement. The flurry of suicide bombings following the Jamia Hafsa operation strongly indicates that Taliban has declared war on Pakistan. The organized pattern of the bombings points to the fact that al-Qaeda is providing Taliban with [...]
Read more →Today’s Daily Times, Pakistan’s leading liberal newspaper, has an outstanding assessment of the recent All Parties Conference held in London. I personally believe that the whole APC is nothing more than an attempt to perform a power grab with the Pakistan’s religious right-wing and the exiled former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. In the next few [...]
Read more →This Op-Ed piece was picked up from the Sunday Daily Dawn. Great reading and posted here for your consumption. THE Economist of London described General Musharraf’s autobiography as “laughingly vainglorious”. That description equally fits his reaction to the gang warfare and pillage in Karachi on May 12. Three days and 40 deaths later, according to [...]
Read more →This Op-Ed piece was picked up from the Sunday Daily Dawn. It provides a very interesting look at the past and current leaders of Pakistan and their contributions to Pakistan. Great reading and posted here for your consumption. Mohammad Ali Jinnah: Achieved his ambition, founded a country, which, he hoped (vainly, as it turned out), [...]
Read more →Amir Zia, a Karachi based freelance columnist, wrote a fantastic Op-Ed piece in today’s The News. I have posted the entire article for your consumption… to be honest, I fully agree with Amir in this article… Should the May 12 mayhem in Pakistan’s financial hub of Karachi surprise those experts and analysts, who understand the [...]
Read more →What have I done? About 2 weeks ago, I started a harsh look at my home country of Pakistan. No holds barred. Take no prisoners. I got a lot of emails, phone calls and comments about the postings and the discussion that I had started. Now, when I started this series, I knew that I [...]
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